― Let Freedom Ring
香里中学校

２年

三木大輔

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as thegreatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. I say to you
today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today andtomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Americandream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons offormer slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state
sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists,
with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition”
and “nullification” -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys andblack girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as
sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill
and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, andthe crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”

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I Have a Dream中学生―Ｄ部門

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair astone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling
discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With thisfaith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will
be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God’s children
will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ringfrom every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will
be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and whitemen, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

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